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class

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/klas/ English

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noun

  1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.“Often used to imply membership of a large class.”
  2. A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
  3. The division of society into classes.“Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.”
  4. Admirable behavior; elegance.“Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.”

verb

  1. To assign to a class; to classify.“I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.”
  2. To be grouped or classed.
  3. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

adjective

  1. Great; fabulous

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